Nathan Stott is Whiteboard-IT’s Senior Software Developer. He is responsible for turning our client’s ideas into working programs. Nathan also has a lot of experience integrating older technology with newer technology. He is always looking forward and learning new technology before it becomes popular, all the while trying to integrate his existing knowledge to make what’s out there better.

Nathan began coding at the early age of 11 in GW basic. In high school, Nathan finished first place all three years he participated in the Computer Science Division of The Alabama State Science and Engineering Fair. In his last year of competition, the U.S. ARMY purchased the source-code of his project, Optimizing Backpropagation Neural Networks using Genetic Algorithms.

After graduating with a Computer Science Degree from Birmingham-Southern College, Nathan moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he freelanced web development. Most of the work involved PHP/MySql.

Nathan made contacts with an overseas company, Digistoft, and worked with them on several projects, the largest of which was a specialized java applet reports-editor for a real-estate firm in Ireland. The reports editor included MySql database querying features and basic MS-Word style text-editing features for easy generation of house-data reports that could include queried comparables from the MySql database. The user was able to define limits for comparables if the defaults were insufficient.

In 2005, Nathan accepted a position as a Systems Programmer at Zortec International. Zortec created and maintains System-Z, a system-independent COBOL based rapid application development environment. Nathan made several improvements to the windows GUI capabilities of the System-Z runtime, giving Z programmers more control over the look and feel of their windows applications. This was challenging in that the Z runtime must be able to run on any Unix/DOS system, so development of the framework for windows-specific GUI components required development of the associated text-environment functionality as well.

Nathan also developed the ZODBC product which allows Z-Base database files to be accessed via ODBC. This project involved the creation of a larger Z Network Services framework. In essence, the Z-runtime was altered to allow Z programs to be called remotely via a network connection. The ZODBC product works by creating on-the-fly Z programs based upon parsed SQL queries and exposing these Z programs as services to be called via the ZODBC DLL. User security was implemented for Z-Base via a customizable Z Program with a default service packaged included with the ZODBC product.

• Lead Developer of The Compliance Store
  The Compliance Store is the leading Longterm Healthcare Regulatory Information Provider on the web. It has a large userbase and thousands of regulatory documents. The website is an ASP.NET webforms site that communicates with a MSSQL Database.
• Co-Developer of Connect With Hampton
  Worked extensively with the payment gateway implementation for payed events on Connect With Hampton. The technology is ASP.NET web forms talking to
  an MSSQL database and using PayPal’s Payflo Pro for a payment gateway. Challenges included keeping accurate and complete audit history of
  all transactions and keeping the database in a consistent, synchronized state with the information from PayPal about transaction status.
• Lead Developer of Hampton Preferred Accounts
  Produced a Ruby on Rails with MySQL application talking to a CouchDB backend to help Hampton track data about their large customers.

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